Report 2007-2011

Commission on Planetary Cartography

Report

2007-2011

Introduction to the ICA Commission

The International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Planetary Cartography was officially established on the basis of the ICA Planetary Cartography Working Group at the ICA Congress in Ottawa in August 1999. Its goal is to develop materials and information intended to aid in the global dissemination of planetary cartographic information. The overall theme of this effort is the harmonization of international planetary cartographic activities. The commission’s activities can help especially in those countries not actively involved in ongoing spacecraft missions, bringing together scientists from diverse backgrounds (planetary science, earth science, cartography) who have not interacted previously, along with map and atlas publishers. The Planetary Cartography Database, the Multilingual Planetary Maps, and the Multilingual Glossary can serve as a reliable resource for cartographers who wish to produce and study planetary maps. Further current activities focus on producing maps of Galilean Satellites.

Commission activities are coordinated by Kira Shingareva (Russia).

ICA Workshops and meeting of the Commission onPlanetary Cartography during the last term

Hargitai, Henrik: Interpretation Of Surface Features Of Mars As A Function Of The Language Of Placenames”. Maps For The Future: Children, Education And Internet”Joint ICA Symposium, Orléans, France. 30 June-1 July 2011

Pugacheva S.: Cartographic method of the research and interpretation of the space images of the terrestrial planets Proceedings of the 23rd International Cartographic Conference, Moscow, Russia (Planetary Cartography Session) (2007)

Shingareva, Kira; Ivan Rozhnev and Dmitri Zhukov: Creation of Electronic Version for “The Atlas of Terrestrial Group Planets and Their Moons” and its Updating Possibilities. 5th International Workshop on Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage, Vienna, 2010. II. 22-24.

Shpekin M.I.: Problems of a uniform selenodetical coordinate system construction for global mapping of the Moon. Proceedings of the 23rd International Cartographic Conference, Moscow, Russia (Planetary Cartography Session) (2007)